Thousand-year-old family: its rise began with Shang Yang’s reforms

Chapter 219 The fight with fate [4-in- k, please subscribe]

Chen Ju said with a slight hesitation: "The situation in the world is indescribable. Although Qin is newly born, it seems to be showing signs of decline."

There was a slight silence in his voice: "I think this is definitely not what my father and Your Majesty want to see."

Chen Zheng raised his head, looked at Chen Ju in front of him, smiled and said, "Is this the reason why you don't want to become an official?"

Chen Ju was not surprised that Chen Zheng saw through his thoughts. He just nodded lightly: "Father said so."

"If Qin is destined to fall, then why must my son devote himself to Qin?"

"Although I don't have the idea that I can't help the two masters, I still feel that if I join Da Qin, if I wait until that day, I will definitely not be able to give up Da Qin. This may drag down the Chen family and also drag down Own."

"Such a thing is impossible."

"I don't want to do that either."

Chen Zheng did not look back. He knew that what Chen Ju said was not just for Chen's consideration. In fact, Chen Ju also had the same intention.

Especially in this era, there is no such thing as "one minister does not serve two masters".

If the Qin State can survive this test, it will naturally become the "prosperous age" praised by the ministers. But if it cannot survive, I am afraid that the desolation before Qin's unification will be what the world will be like after.

He raised his head and said calmly in his voice: "Since you don't want to, then I will refuse Your Majesty for you."

It didn't take much to travel from Guandu to Xianyang City, but Chen Ju walked very slowly. He didn't delay on purpose, but wanted to take a look at the world now unified by Qin.

"Even if I can refuse His Majesty for you, you have to go in person. This is the most basic respect for an ancient first emperor."

The autumn rain came quickly, and the cold rain fell on the ground, making people feel a little tired. Chen Zheng threw the last handful of fish food in his hand into the pond, and then said with emotion: "It's okay. .”

Chen Zheng turned his head, looked at Chen Ju who was sitting there, smiled and blinked: "After all, I can't choose the path you want to take for you."

Ying Zheng knew in his heart what the Qin State had become due to his eagerness for success in the past few years.

He looked at Chen Zheng, nodded slightly, and whispered: "Okay, father."

Yes, Ying Zheng could see at a glance Chen Ju's attitude of not refusing or accepting, and he could also see his tact and sophistication at a glance.

However, Ying Zheng's expression changed slightly. He looked at Kanyu Tu behind him with some thoughts on his face.

He had a "clear conscience", so Chen Zheng had no choice but to say anything.

But Ying Zheng didn't care about this.

However, Ying Zheng has no worries about Chen Ju's appointment.

"The Chen family should be famous all over the world even if they don't hold office!"

Zhangtai Palace

But Chen Ju seemed to be okay. After all, he always felt that his father's past personality was too dull and serious.

Probably not.

Chen Ju walked out of Guandu and headed towards Xianyang City at a slow speed. What seemed to be a journey soon spread to the ears of Ying Zheng and many officials in the court.

Are these people's lives getting better, worse, or the same?

In the spring of the eleventh year of the First Emperor's reign, Chen Ju stepped out of his home in Guandu, and he began to understand everything outside.

"Mr. Chen is just trying to find an excuse for himself, an excuse and a step that can convince him."

He wanted to see the head of Guizhou in the world, at least the head of Guizhou within the radiation range of Xianyang City.

Since resigning, Chen Zheng has let himself go. His temperament is not as dull as before, but he seems a little out of touch.

He pointed into the distance and said, "Go ahead."

Yes.

"Go."

Under his governance, has the capital of Guizhou in the world already lived a prosperous life?

The chamberlain on the side responded in a low voice: "This shows that Mr. Chen was moved by His Majesty and wanted to enter the court, so he reacted like this."

"What's more, you have been in Guandu for so many years. It's time for the world to meet the next generation head of the Chen family!"

For His Majesty the First Emperor Ying Zheng, who has ruled the world for decades and has been in power for twenty years, a smooth Chen family is more worthy of reuse than an upright Chen family and is more able to please him.

Famous ministers choose trees to perch. This is the common value of this era.

Chen Ju stood there, looking at his father who had become very lively, even too lively, since he resigned, with a little helplessness on his face.

If you treat me badly, I will leave.

"This is a responsibility that you cannot escape as a son of the Chen family."

"But, now His Majesty is so magnanimous and persuasive. Maybe you will change your mind after meeting him?"

All the things he saw determined whether he would want to become an official in the court.

He smiled and said: "Under His Majesty's governance, all the heads of Guizhou in the world are living a good life, so just let Mr. Chen see it."

In fact, Chen Ju had not yet made up his mind to really reject the First Emperor's imperial edict. After all, if the Qin State was really destroyed, it would not have much impact on Chen and him.

Even Chen is like this.

Palace

Ying Zheng chuckled and said with a smile: "His temperament is completely different from his father's. He doesn't seem to be as violent or upright as his father at all."

Perhaps Chen Shizi has hundreds of personalities, but the most important underlying character of Chen Shizi is always "loving the people".

If it was really a prosperous age, maybe the Chen family would retire because of this, but what about the current situation?

Ying Zheng shrugged his shoulders. The Chen family would definitely be worried about Qian Shou, so they entered the court again.

In the autumn of the eleventh year of the First Emperor's reign, a carriage came from the direction of Guandu in the heavy rain. Some shadows fell in the heavy rain, while Chen Ju was sitting in the carriage, looking at the majestic and ancient Xianyang City.

If Chen Ju was satisfied with the Qin State under the rule of the First Emperor in the past six months, he could only say:

Not very satisfied.

What he saw in this year was not the "prosperity" of the Qin State, nor the "smiles" on the faces of the heads of Guizhou after the unification of the Qin State, but the "numbness" towards life and the "Qin Law" respect.

The leaders of the Qin State respected Qin Law too much, and it could even be said to be in awe.

In other words, there is nothing wrong with using adjectives such as fearful and fearful.

This is not a good thing.

Yes.

Not only did Chen Ju not think this was a good thing, he also thought it was a very terrible thing.

The leaders of Guizhou under the rule of Qin seemed to be "puppetes" one by one, being held up and controlled by puppet strings. They had no "passion" for life. They are numb.

Chen Ju thought of those Guizhou leaders who knelt down numbly after seeing him, and then continued planting numbly, as if there were invisible "threads" around them that would end their lives if they were touched.

He couldn't imagine why such a thing happened.

Qin's laws are very strict, but not so strict.

So with a curious heart, he asked the surrounding villagers. Although most of the Guizhou leaders did not dare to tell him anything about the shortcomings of Qin Law, a few children inadvertently said something.

Chen Ju immediately wrote a secret letter to the First Emperor who was far away in Xianyang City. As he requested, the First Emperor allowed him to temporarily mobilize the people from Heibingtai in the area to investigate all these matters.

The end result is both simple and complex.

Of course the "Qin Law" in Xianyang City is not like this, but the "Qin Law" here is very bad.

Perhaps this has been the case since ancient times.

The Qin laws studied by the princes in the central court of Xianyang City are very complete and more friendly than the Qin laws before the Qin State. However, after moving from Xianyang City to the local area, it became a little stricter.

Because for the "county guards" or "county magistrates" in those places, "relaxation" is not an easy thing.

If it is relaxed, they will need to explain a lot to these so-called "Guizhou leaders", which is a very troublesome matter.

And very unfavorable to jurisdiction.

Therefore, they implemented the stricter "Qin Law" "on their own initiative".

At the county level, the revised Qin Law may only be "slightly stricter", which is acceptable to the leaders of Guizhou and will not cause them to lose their "activity", but further down.

At the county level, in order to cope with the tasks of county guards, county magistrates will be more strict with their respective heads of Guizhou.

Maybe they don't have the guts to change Qin's laws, but they can "rumour".

Although the so-called "harsh" Qin laws have been revised many times in the Qin Dynasty with the Chen family, what is supposed to come will eventually come.

This is the drawback of the county system, and also the drawback of the land being too vast.

From ancient times to the present, few people have been able to solve this problem.

Peach Blossom Spring

Chen Ye was like an emotionless machine, sitting on a recliner and slowly watching Chen Ju's travels.

In fact, it was his arrangement that Chen Ju would go out of Guandu and see these things as if traveling.

He dangled the ineffective [C-Level · Wake-up call] prop in his hand with a slight smile on his face. He raised his head and looked at the sky and sighed softly.

Could it be that only fate would play its invisible hand and secretly change the "rut" of history?

He, Mr. Chen, can do it too.

The fate of history slowly modified Chen's previous changes. He used a very clever "means" that even appeared in history.

In the original history, the reason for Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising was recorded as "delayed by rain and will be beheaded." This was the direct reason, and it was even written down in the history books. A few years later, the First Emperor was hanged. After year after year of criticism in the Qing Dynasty, the important "evidence" of the bamboo slips from the Qin tomb in Shuihudi was released.

It states that if there is a reason for delay, you will only be "fined" and will not be beheaded.

Whether Chen Sheng and Wu Guang knew this is not known now. After all, no one could pull these two people out from the underground for verification, but the head of Guizhou who followed them in "rebellion" at that time must not have known.

Because they would not get any benefits, there was only one possibility for them to risk their heads to commit rebellion.

That is, they feel that they will definitely die even if they do not rebel.

In this case, both the left and the right are facing death, so why not really plot a rebellion, maybe there is still a way to survive.

This is "rumor".

The same is true in today's Great Qin. The "hand" of history has once again played with history, allowing the governors and county magistrates who were afraid that the head of Guizhou would violate Qin's laws to "rumor" and "change" it a little, or even without the need to change it. They only need to find a few people to implement the "Qin Law" they changed to convince the Guizhou leaders.

History has once again returned to this "correct" track and begun to run in the "right" direction.

At this time, another person who could interfere with history appeared.

Chen Ye.

Chen Ye used the props extracted from the system and cleverly let "Chen Ju" see all this.

As long as Chen Ju can see it, he will definitely tell the First Emperor Ying Zheng.

This was Chen Ye's first attempt and his first attempt to fight against "destiny".

Fixing destiny is not a simple matter, so Chen Ye needs to test again and again in the long history, and find a "method" that is enough to resist destiny and change the rut.

And these methods all take time.

"Aha——"

Chen Ye sighed slowly and made a happy sound. He just smiled and said: "I don't know if this attempt can change the outcome of Qin's demise?"

He touched his chin.

Zhangtai Palace

Ying Zheng listened solemnly and gloomily to Chen Ju's account of what he had seen and heard along the way. His expression was extremely gloomy.

Even though he didn't like the way Chen Zheng had stubbornly defended Qin's laws before, what he didn't like even more was that someone dared to "change" Qin's laws by violating him openly and secretly.

His anger almost reached the sky.

Chen Ju's expression remained calm.

He looked at Ying Zheng with a somewhat calm expression on his face: "I thought His Majesty would know these things, but it seems that His Majesty doesn't know either."

Chen Ju placed the tea cup in front of Ying Zheng, and then said softly: "How does Your Majesty plan to deal with those people and deal with these things?"

Ying Zheng squinted his eyes and looked cold.

"Just kill him!"

Chen Ju frowned slightly: "Your Majesty really wants to kill them all?"

This is a test. If Ying Zheng really wants to kill him, maybe Chen Ju will give a few tactful words of advice and then turn around and run away.

Ying Zheng chuckled and suppressed all the anger in his heart. He raised his eyebrows and looked at Chen Ju: "Of course it's a joke. There are so many county guards in the world. How many of them can truly abide by their responsibilities?"

"There are not that many suitable candidates in Xianyang Academy now. If we kill them, the world will be in chaos."

There was a bit of gloomy storm in his eyes.

The shortcomings of the county system have finally begun to be revealed.

The shortcomings of the First Emperor's crazy plan were finally revealed.

Everything seemed like a storm was coming.

(End of this chapter)